"I
simply argue
that
the cross should be raised
at the center of the marketplace
as well as the steeple of the church.
I am recovering the claim
that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral
between two candles,
but on a cross between two thieves:
on the town's garbage heap:
at a place so cosmopolitan
they had to write His title
in Hebrew and Latin and Greek...
at the kind of place where cynics talk smut,
and thieves curse and soldiers gamble.
Because that is
where He died.
And
that is what He died for.
And
that is what He died about.
That
is where the church ought to be
and what the church ought to be about."
-- George
MacLeod
